About the position
The KIPP Texas Finance Team is a high performing department within our School Support Partners (SSP). Our department consists of three teams - Accounting, Business Intelligence, and Financial Planning & Analysis. This role sits on the Business Intelligence Team. Business Intelligence is a highly agile team within KIPP Texas Public Schools with the purpose to rapidly increase the availability of usable, relevant data to all campus and department stakeholders. Our team's focus is to equip leaders with the needed data to drive mission-aligned action and best support our students. KIPP Texas is currently seeking a smart, motivated and experienced Manager to bring strong problem-solving and analytical skills to a leading charter management organization. KIPP Texas is committed to using data to drive academic, financial, instructional, operational and talent improvement and decision-making. The Senior Manager, Data Strategy & Analytics is critical to KIPP Texas achieving this work. This individual must be as much a people person as a numbers person-collaboration and building strong cross-functional partnerships are necessary to be successful in this role. This position reports to the Managing Director of Business Intelligence and follows a hybrid schedule (coming to our SSP office in Houston 3 days a week; and work from home 2 days a week). This role is expected to travel to other regions and/or sites 5%-10% of the year.
Responsibilities
- With the Managing Director of Business Intelligence, sets vision for analytics, research and evaluation for short- and long-term work using Power BI
- With input from key stakeholders supports in transitioning our reporting from Tableau to Power BI
- Collaborates and supports our data customers especially Academics, Operations, and Talent Teams
- Ensures work between the Data Systems team and the Analytics team is collaborative
- Regularly assesses and improves systems to reflect best practices, and proactively communicates improvements to relevant stakeholders
- Monitors organization-wide data usage and anticipates future data needs based on organizational priorities and initiatives
- Translates data strategy into plans to achieve goals, including through system performance management
- Lead accountability reporting to major stakeholders including our Academics Department, Team Texas Chiefs (T2), and School Management Team (Regional Superintendents, Heads of Schools, etc.)
- Provide projections and predictions to inform our leadership teams
- Execute ad-hoc analysis requests and serve as a strategic partner by resolving end-user questions in a timely, friendly, and proactive manner via our data tickets
- Develop, and provide training to leadership and key stakeholders on the use, manipulation, and analysis of interactive data visualizations in Power BI
- Support in delivering data, analysis, and insights from complex data sets that enable us to drive strategic priorities
- Supports management team to make data analysis part of all decision-making and continuous improvement
- Leads department to provide timely, actionable data
- With report owners, develop plan to increase end users' ability to use data to inform decisions
- Provides thought-partnership and strategy with key stakeholders around data with a heavy focus on academic readiness, operational excellence, and talent
- Manages documentation of agreements with external organizations regarding student data
- Experience planning and executing data-driven projects across multiple departments and/or teams, demonstrating resourcefulness and strong problem-solving skills
- Design, build, and iterate tools and processes that help our organization to make equitable decisions
- Work directly with school administration and organizational leadership across all of our regions to ensure tools and processes meet the needs of our end-users
- Test, validate, and evaluate data visualizations for accuracy, performance, and alignment with organization priorities and determine the best data visualization methods to present information
- Collaborate with the Analytics Team to scope end-user requirements and project plan for advanced interactive and dynamic data visualizations to meet functional needs
- Contribute to our internal team's knowledge management systems, documentation practices, and code review process to ensure that we build and maintain infrastructure sustainably
Requirements
- A passion for being part of a team-oriented, mission-driven culture and a commitment for the students we educate
- Experience managing a team and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders
- Analytics experience, preferably at a school system or non-profit for 4+ years
- Superior quantitative and technical skills
- Experience with data reporting tools including Tableau Desktop and Power BI, with a stronger emphasis on proficiency in Power BI
- Mastery of Microsoft Excel
- Some experience with programming languages, specifically SQL required
- Some experience with statistical software with a strong preference towards R though others are acceptable (e.g. Stata, SPSS, SAS)
- Experience cleaning, validating and manipulating large datasets
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Minimum Bachelor's degree
